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Musa tomentosa
Musa tomentosa O. Warburg ex K. M. Schumann, In: A.
Engler et al (eds.) Das Pflanzenreich. Engelmann, Leipzig, 1900 - . 4, 45 :
22. (1912).
| Accepted name |
not determined |
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| Distribution |
Celebes. |
| Description |
Stalk of the inflorescence covered with greyish-brown minute velvety hairs.
Perianth 1½ in. long; free petal ¾ in. long, broadly ovate, cuspidate-acuminate.
Fruit about 5 in. long, beaked, somewhat angled, with a short thick stalk. (Fawcett 1913). |
| References |
Fawcett 1913 : 268, Index
Kewensis, Nakai 1948 : 14, Schumann 1912, Uphof 1968. |
| Comments |
Takenosin Nakai comments that M. tomentosa
and M. celebica belong to one "species" and that the latter
should be reduced to the former. |
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